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| abrasion | a wound in which the outer layer of the skin are damaged;a scrape
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| abscess | a collection of pus in a cavity surrounded by inflammed tissue
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| absorbable suture | suture material that is fradually disgested by tissue enzymes and absorbed by the body.
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| approximation | the process of bringing two parts, such as tissue, togeather through the use od suture or other means
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| bandage | a strip of woven material used to wrap or cover a part of the body
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| biopsy | the surgicla removal and examination of tissue from the living body. biopsies are generally performed to determine wheather a tumor is benign or malignant.
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| capillary action | the action that causes liquid to rise along a wick, a tube, or a gauze dressing.
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| colposcope | a lighted instrument with a binocular magnifying lens used to examine the vagina and cervix
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| colposcopy | the visual examination of the vagina and cervix using a colposcope
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| contaminate | as it relates to sterile technique, to cause a sterile object or surface to become unsterile
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| contusion | an injuryto the tissue under the skin that causes blood vessels to rupture, allowing blood to seep into the tissue;a bruise
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| cryosurgrey | the theraputic use of freezing temperatures to destroy abnormal tissues
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| exudate | a discharge produced by the bodys tissue
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| fibroblast | an immature cell from which connective tissue can develope
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| forceps | a two-pronged instrument for grasping ans squeezing
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| furuncle | a localized staphylococcal infection that oringinates deep within a hair follicle also known as a boil
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| hemostasis | the arrest of bleeding by natural ro artifical means
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| incision | a clean cut caused by a cutting instrument
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| infection | the condition in which the body, orpart of it, is invaded by a pathogen
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| infilation | the process by which a substance passes into and is deposited within the substance of a cell, tissue, or organ
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| inflammation | a protective responce of the body to trauma and the entrance of foreign matter. the purpose of inflammation is to destroy invading microrgansims and to repair injured tissue
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| laceration | a wound in which the tissues are torn apart, leaving ragged and irregular edges
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| ligate | to tie off and close a structure such as a servered blood vessel
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| local ansthetic | a drug that produces a loss of feeling and inability to perceive pain in only a specific part of the body
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| mayo tray | a broad, flat metal tray placed on a stand and used to hold sterile instruments and supplies when it has been covered with sterile towel
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| needle biopsy | a type of biopsy in which tissue from deep within the body is obtained by the insertion of a biopsy needle through the skin
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| nonabsorbable suture | suture material that is not absorbed by the body and either remains permanently in the body tissue and becomes encapsulated by fibrous tissue or is removed
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| postoperative | ater a surgical operation
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| preoperative | preceding a surgical operation
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| puncture | a wound made by a shapr pointed object piercing the skin
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| scalpel | a surgical knife used to divide tissue
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| scissors | a cutting instrument
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| sebacceous cyst | a thin, closed sac or capsule that contains fatty secretions from a sebaceous gland
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| serum | the clear, straw-colored part of the blood that remains after the solid elements have been seperated out of it
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| steile | free fropm all living microorganisms and bacterial spores
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| surgical asepsis | practices that keep objects and areas sterile or free from microorgtamsims
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| sutures | material used to approximate tissues with surgical stiches
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| swaged needle | a needle with suturing material permanently attached to its end
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| wound | a break in the continuity of an externalv or inernal surface caused by physical means
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